Lubuntu alternative sessions script

[Federico Leoni]

Thanks for all for the feedback.

@Jose Lopez: I tried to so do a session based on the standard lxpanel
but there are things that it can't do like mixing launchers with the
open windows. If you know an applet that do that,could you gently send
me a link?
For the same reason I'll use Cairo-Dock for Windows7 session but
without shadows and using the dock as a complete panel replacement.
Anyway I'll do another session with lxpanel fox XP session without
composite manager.

@Mr Wislr: The script is generated "by hand" for now.

@leszek.lesner: I completely forgot security in this primary stage. I
removed the script from the wiki but soon I'll offer it from another
host and with md5sum. I also removed -y from apt-get lines.

@Nio Wiklund: I didn't compared with the standard foot-print of
Xubuntu, all I know for now is Lubuntu-OSX use 2% CPU and 128MB RAM.
With a terminal, chrome (with four tabs) and the taskmanager running
33% CPU and 582MB RAM.

Any other useful tips?

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2013/7/4  <leszek.lesner at web.de>:
> Let me first say its nice that you put some work in it.
> But I must warn you here that shipping this kinds of scripts is a complete security risk.
> First of all the script itself uses apt-get -y calls which have the potential to destroy dependencies delete packages and leave a non working packagemanager.
> Second is the wiki.ubuntu.com site shouldn't be a place for storing scripts. Instead it should be a place where you show how to transform a normal Lubuntu look into your lubuntuosx look for example.
> If the script gets compromised on the server and a user just executes it (believe me they do) without looking into it it will be doomsday for a lot of users. So my advice would be removing the script asap and not making it a potential harm to the user.
> We could discuss maybe to use your configuration in the script as a seperate package maybe for lubuntu ppa or something (which has signed packages and so on) . All inall its a nice idea but we really need to be careful with spreading scripts.
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> Von meinem Nokia N9 gesendetFederico Leoni schrieb am 04.07.13 04:33:
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> after a consultation with other members of the list I prepared a preliminary script based on the sample offered by Jonathan to let users easily create new sessions in Lubuntu to change the visual of the DE and have a more "Eye-Candy" desktop for those who have problems to migrate from other OS.
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> I'm aware is not what a linux power user wants but I know many people asking for that.
> The script and a brief explanation is available on Ubuntu Wiki.
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> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu%20alternative%20sessions
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> I hope you will appreciate the effort.
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> Note: English is not my primary language, forgive me if made some mistakes.